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user-inactivated  ·  3841 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What language(s) are you currently learning?

I took Latin this year and regret it immensely. I've wasted a lot of time learning the specifics of a dead language. I'll be taking Spanish next year, which I'll be able to apply in my life because I live in the US Midwest.

Any recommendations for immersion?





veen  ·  3840 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I was writing a longer comment but lost it due to losing wifi signal and subsequently restarting Chrome. Anyway, the gist of it:

Of those languages, I found Latin to be the most valuable to my linguistic insight. Nearly all West-European languages have their roots in it, including English. I didn't like having Latin because it was a language, not because it was Latin. I mean, I have translated parts of Caesar's De Bello Gallico and Pliny the Younger's letters to his uncle, explaining the Pompeii eruption. Closer to classical history you cannot get.

For immersion, I would recommend finding a forum or site on a topic you're interested in, in the language that you want to learn. You could also try reading the Spanish news.